How to set up a 3-D Photo Gallery for Your Photos
Lots of photography software packages include options for setting up photo galleries and albums. However, you can’t set up 3-D galleries with many of them. That is unless you have a software package such as Photo! 3D Album. This is software that adds your photos to 3-D galleries and settings. With it you can set [...]
Using the Dropbox Cloud to Backup Your Photos Online
The Cloud is something that has really picked up in 2012 and now the ability to store your favourite files and photos online has never been easier. There are a huge number of different services available to you, each with their pros and cons and each with large differences in pricing. Photo storage is one [...]
Replace a Background in Photoshop
Very often we photograph people in a crowd or in a distracting environment and would really like to have them in a photo all by themselves. That means it’s Photoshop time, and with just a little effort we can put that person where ever we would like after extracting him from the existing photo. The [...]
Wildlife Photography: Blend in with the Pros
Three exceedingly simple rules to improve your wildlife photos A mighty, male lion caught in the middle of a roar. A lanky, long-necked giraffe feeding with its family. Perhaps a small hawk precariously, perched high above, ready to take flight. These are the sights that wildlife photographers long for. So what can you do to [...]
Waterproof Cases for DSLR Cameras
Taking your DSLR for a swim – waterproof cases for your large cameras While there are many pocketable waterproof cameras, if you want large fast lenses and extensive manual controls, you’ll probably prefer shooting with your DSLR. So how many ways are there to protect your camera when taking it swimming or playing in the [...]
Shooting Photos at Night – Four Tips for Photographers
Photos shot at night can be highly dramatic or a total waste of time. To increase the chances of the former, here are four tips for night time situations. Creating light trails Light trails are when car headlights and tail lights leave streaks across your photo, usually with dramatic effect. What you’ll need: a tripod [...]
Lightroom 4: Guide to Organisation
For anyone with over 1,000 digital photos, keeping them organised starts to become a challenge. Finding any particular image can take hours if not days as you sort through flash cards and miscellaneous folders on your laptop or external drives. Adobe Lightroom was created just for you, but it does much more than just catalogue [...]
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From Fiction to Reality: Are Dinosaurs Back on Earth?
Posted on April 11th, 2013 No commentsDespite having been widely extinct from the earth for around 66 million years, Dinosaurs are pretty big news in modern society. The Guardian even has it's own science page devoted to them! While they seem like a work of fiction to us now, in reality Dinosaurs were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for 135 million years, ...
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Putting on a Show with the LUMIX GH3: David Allain’s At First Sight
Posted on April 5th, 2013 No comments
Mobility in recent years has become one of the most important aspects of owning a digital camera, after all what use is having one if you can't take it outside and capture the many wonders of the world? A compromise was usually struck between mobility and quality for many camera manufactures allowing users to capture ...
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Panasonic GH3 Feature Film: Hertz
Posted on March 28th, 2013 No comments
Hertz is the newest film from Panasonic, highlighting the technological capabilities of the new Lumix GH3. As the first of three GH3-Minute Movies, Hertz tells a story of escape and mystery as Toby Kebbell (Rock N Rolla, Prince of Persia) is held within an interrogation room. Shot entirely with the GH3, Hertz truly shows off the full range ...
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How to set up a 3-D Photo Gallery for Your Photos
Posted on March 13th, 2013 No comments
Lots of photography software packages include options for setting up photo galleries and albums. However, you can't set up 3-D galleries with many of them. That is unless you have a software package such as Photo! 3D Album. This is software that adds your photos to 3-D galleries and settings. With it you can set ...
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Using the Dropbox Cloud to Backup Your Photos Online
Posted on January 9th, 2013 No comments
The Cloud is something that has really picked up in 2012 and now the ability to store your favourite files and photos online has never been easier. There are a huge number of different services available to you, each with their pros and cons and each with large differences in pricing. Photo storage is one ...
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How Many Megapixels Do You Need?
Posted on September 10th, 2012 No comments
In a world where typically “bigger” is considered “better”, camera ratings are shouting out their bigness in the form of “megapixels”. Are more megapixels really better? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Let’s look at a few scenarios and hopefully you’ll be able to judge for yourself. You print your photos at 150x100 - If this is ...
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Replace a Background in Photoshop
Posted on August 14th, 2012 No comments
Very often we photograph people in a crowd or in a distracting environment and would really like to have them in a photo all by themselves. That means it’s Photoshop time, and with just a little effort we can put that person where ever we would like after extracting him from the existing photo. The screen ...
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Wildlife Photography: Blend in with the Pros
Posted on July 26th, 2012 No comments
Three exceedingly simple rules to improve your wildlife photos A mighty, male lion caught in the middle of a roar. A lanky, long-necked giraffe feeding with its family. Perhaps a small hawk precariously, perched high above, ready to take flight. These are the sights that wildlife photographers long for. So what can you do to increase your ...
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Waterproof Cases for DSLR Cameras
Posted on July 25th, 2012 No comments
Taking your DSLR for a swim – waterproof cases for your large cameras While there are many pocketable waterproof cameras, if you want large fast lenses and extensive manual controls, you’ll probably prefer shooting with your DSLR. So how many ways are there to protect your camera when taking it swimming or playing in the surf? If ...
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Shooting Photos at Night – Four Tips for Photographers
Posted on July 5th, 2012 No comments
Photos shot at night can be highly dramatic or a total waste of time. To increase the chances of the former, here are four tips for night time situations. Creating light trails Light trails are when car headlights and tail lights leave streaks across your photo, usually with dramatic effect. What you’ll need: a tripod of some ...
